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the law changed everything. it was copied all over the world. david moss, who studied these carefully, what i think it did is it created a sense of pleasure in investing. it made -- people used to invest in lotteries. they loved to gamble. that's another human trait, lovable of loving the excitement if your number came out. creating limited liability, it was fun, the same way a lottery is fun. i mean, people have to enjoy life; right? there has to be something that makes you get out of bed in the morning and gives you excitement. we design things that give you that feeling. that securities law has been the source of a lot of our innovations because now investors -- looks like they play a game, looks a little selfish, but that drives our economy. carl marx said it was gambling, and we should shut it down, worse than that, worse than that, but after years of experimenting with that people think, well, maybe we have to let people indulge in these feelings, and so they -- okay -- so let me move. i have another -- another 10-15 minutes. i wanted to t
the law changed everything. it was copied all over the world. david moss, who studied these carefully, what i think it did is it created a sense of pleasure in investing. it made -- people used to invest in lotteries. they loved to gamble. that's another human trait, lovable of loving the excitement if your number came out. creating limited liability, it was fun, the same way a lottery is fun. i mean, people have to enjoy life; right? there has to be something that makes you get out of bed in...
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regulatory law. that is an enormous step for us in this house of commons to take. and we have to think about it very carefully before we leap into this new approach. >> [inaudibleif we want people t the recommendations -- he can't really pick and choose, you should access all the recommendations. [inaudible conversations] >> it is the job of this house of commons to consider a report and think what is right for this country to introduce. now, i have highlighted the issue of the changes of the data protection act because i am advised that those could have a very serious effect on investigative journalism. it would be quite wrong if we received a report of this magnitude and 75 minutes flat that we will implement every last piece of it without thinking of the consequences. a responsible government will have limits. the independent press is right. >> if the prime minister is clear as i am about reading paragraph 7076, mr. chairman makes absolutely clear that it is essential that there should be legislat
regulatory law. that is an enormous step for us in this house of commons to take. and we have to think about it very carefully before we leap into this new approach. >> [inaudibleif we want people t the recommendations -- he can't really pick and choose, you should access all the recommendations. [inaudible conversations] >> it is the job of this house of commons to consider a report and think what is right for this country to introduce. now, i have highlighted the issue of the...
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in the 1980s when i was a law school, there was a quite heated debate between legal scholars all on the left about the question of rights, and i was just a student at that time, but found it interesting with a group that has come to be known as critical legal studies and another group, mainly scholars of color, that later became known as critical race theory, and the debate was about the rights and whether they were a good idea and the critical legal studies position was one that was known as the critique of rights, and so they had a number of criticisms, a number of concerns about the assertion of rights, most of which had to do with worries about the way they shaped political consciousness the way they affected political move movements. the response was quite powerful. defending rights, particularly, civil rights for dispossessed or subordinated groups in very, very strong terms. i found that debate fascinating, and i think it was never really resolved. they had points about rights, when they were useful opposed to potentially counterproductive both the costs and ben fients of rights,
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laws and so on. we've got to stay clear of those. but if we do that, we should know we have the opportunity to succeed or fail based upon the greatness of our ideas and not based upon what a government bureaucrat thinks it's a good idea. and that is really, in my opinion, a good thing that we limit the ability of the fcc and other government agencies to regulate. >> host: julianna gruenwald. >> there is some concern that energy transaction breakdown between verizon and then the cable comes to me that if that deal goes through s. proposed that it would undermine one of the chief goals of the 96 telecom act, which is the different companies will compete against each other. the cable companies offer internet, phone, video and so will the phone company. there is concern that a cross marketing agreement with verizon the cable companies have proposed could undermine that her critics say basically they agree not to compete against each other. do your concerns about the transaction? also there's been calls f
laws and so on. we've got to stay clear of those. but if we do that, we should know we have the opportunity to succeed or fail based upon the greatness of our ideas and not based upon what a government bureaucrat thinks it's a good idea. and that is really, in my opinion, a good thing that we limit the ability of the fcc and other government agencies to regulate. >> host: julianna gruenwald. >> there is some concern that energy transaction breakdown between verizon and then the...
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i think the companies understand that this is a new legal obligations they have under the law. at least in the initial engagement they seem to be taking it quite seriously and constructively. so we'll see how the process plays out in but we received in the first round in july and take it from there. at least as far we are operating on the premise that all sides are going to approach this i am hopeful that it will be a project if exercised on both sides. >> currently there is unlimited deposit insurance for deposits and non-interest-bearing accounts. i'm wondering, that is supposed to end december 31 of this year, but i've also understand there are proposals pending to extend that insurance. can you give us some idea of what is the likelihood that that unlimited insurance to be extended? >> i should note that the insurance coverage you are referring to, which is enacted as part of the dodd-frank act, so does the statutory requirement that was adopted by the congress, shall should be a decision for the congress on whether or not to extend that. if the authority of spires at the e
i think the companies understand that this is a new legal obligations they have under the law. at least in the initial engagement they seem to be taking it quite seriously and constructively. so we'll see how the process plays out in but we received in the first round in july and take it from there. at least as far we are operating on the premise that all sides are going to approach this i am hopeful that it will be a project if exercised on both sides. >> currently there is unlimited...
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i like very much the prospective about democracy and the strength of the rule of law. from my perspective, the rule of law in democracy is going with the strength of the society. and i think that new foreign policy perfectly needed in civil society organization, how to strength these not going only by the government or by the entrepreneurs. by the kind of relations and not people, amongst people organized >> well, let me start by saying that the our united states is so unique in many ways, and we keep talking about economics, but the united states is sort of the foundation of a lot of wonderful attributes that are going worldwide. philanthropy is one. philanthropy is uniquely american. the third sector, the nonprofit sector, the creation of a third sector, is very much an american one, and one of the thing is have been involved in in the issue of migration for quite some time -- is the evolution of a civil society, particularly in mexico. in the last 30 years. and to me, the growth of civil society, the checks and balances, happen when you have a strong democratic form
i like very much the prospective about democracy and the strength of the rule of law. from my perspective, the rule of law in democracy is going with the strength of the society. and i think that new foreign policy perfectly needed in civil society organization, how to strength these not going only by the government or by the entrepreneurs. by the kind of relations and not people, amongst people organized >> well, let me start by saying that the our united states is so unique in many...
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craig becker the famous lawyer is a yale law school grad. he was not going at night and very highly trained business people. brandywine garden has a very strong academic background the teaching was a minor part but never a classic teacher. if you took the amount of money they take a newly the libyan the top quartile. talk about a huge massive organization. we do go into some of that i cannot go into detail but it the traditional union goes into government employees. they are fighting over it. >> >> congratulations on your new appointment. >> are you optimistic that all with the debate? >> that is a great question. look at wisconsin and. while. that it is over. what have been in an ohio? the realize wisconsin firefighters are excluded the power the unions hold in a massive amount of money they control is mind-boggling and this battle has just begun and is far from over. shadowbosses to not want to lose their way of life and want to be 1%. i thank heritage. [applause] this is fabulous. >> the ohio library the most unique in the country the col
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>> family law. also foundations of law would day explain "the federalist papers" enumerated powers, states rates then apply a to those issues two-seat did day get their right or wrong? and teach some writing courses. >>host: where did you go to school? >> new york city and undergrad michigan state. guide definitely picked this for my life. i had given up on teaching and the reason i made it personally is cut to train the next generation to send them out there to transform the culture. >>host: at what point* does this story end? >> i don't know. legally when it she is found work comes back when isabella cannot be forced to visit. i hope the message resonates with leaders and churches. i don't want it to end. >>host: reworking on other cases similar? >> not currently. we rake in the gatt calls with custody i
>> family law. also foundations of law would day explain "the federalist papers" enumerated powers, states rates then apply a to those issues two-seat did day get their right or wrong? and teach some writing courses. >>host: where did you go to school? >> new york city and undergrad michigan state. guide definitely picked this for my life. i had given up on teaching and the reason i made it personally is cut to train the next generation to send them out there to...
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>>guest: history of american law. and i teach the course to anybody who wants to take it from the english period with the construction and i teach a seminar that i called the history of social change. this is about topics that i and interested in. and i do what i am interested in. says history have any place of foreign policy? of course. this semester we do elegy bt rights, education, and students read material from all sides of the issues. >>host: day ms washington? >> nine this the of little bit of power because the matter how small the agency or miniscule the power when people have problems problems, sometimes you can help them. with the commission imus being able to bring people that no one heard from war would be listened to. >> this is your third or fourth book? >>guest: no. have written many more. maybe nine or 10. i am working on one right now. the topic is what does that mean, it is on voter fraud. i found a place in louisiana where they seem to have a persistent record of voter fraud from the 19th century un
>>guest: history of american law. and i teach the course to anybody who wants to take it from the english period with the construction and i teach a seminar that i called the history of social change. this is about topics that i and interested in. and i do what i am interested in. says history have any place of foreign policy? of course. this semester we do elegy bt rights, education, and students read material from all sides of the issues. >>host: day ms washington? >> nine...
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to be used to place federal laws where it makes sense to do so. also we must simplify approval process for projects within a facility right away. this is something we can do very easily. we can agree to these commonsense changes and i'm confident we can cut the time it takes to approve a project and they are thereby better producing cost of transportation projects an economic and safety benefits for those projects were engaged in a more timely fashion and as it goes we can do much more with less. i thank you, chairwoman bacher and make it and may yield the balance of my time. >> thank you. >> senator menendez is not here. representative costello is not here. am i right on that? representative whitfield here? yes, welcome. three minutes. >> thank you. maybe i'll go appear. >> i think it would reach. >> madam chair, thank you very much. we appreciate the opportunity to be at this conference. it's my great honor to be here on behalf of the commerce committee for our chairman fred upton. we're all aware that the american people today do not have a ver
to be used to place federal laws where it makes sense to do so. also we must simplify approval process for projects within a facility right away. this is something we can do very easily. we can agree to these commonsense changes and i'm confident we can cut the time it takes to approve a project and they are thereby better producing cost of transportation projects an economic and safety benefits for those projects were engaged in a more timely fashion and as it goes we can do much more with...
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>> still a full-time law professor. since the novel people of asked me i think what professor is my job but write-in novels is a hobby. >> when you wrote your first? storie what got you over the first?s ll a >> characters have always i floated even today when i write a novel i alloys haveike t characters in mind some new and situat up in this study becauseio they are mysteries and they are put into an odd situation. >> host: we will not give away the ending but given the title it is safe to say he was impeached by the house of representatives. >> correct. of house impeaches the t senate hold the trial this se second half is a courtroomat thriller based on but it may have looked like. i righted as a fan. not as a foe. >> the impeachment of abraham lincoln. book. here is the book.joining u here you can buy it yourself. >> this is my pleasure
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you know, the idea is that it means something different under sharia law? the freedom of expression and chinese context of something other than what we know? you know, racial equality and the jim crow south wasn't something that was culturally grounded. how do you distinguish what you are saying from those long-standing? at least in the mind of human rights advocate. >> guest: that's a great question and i do want to distinguish what i think. i don't accept that kind of relativism at all. what i want to suggest is that the right -- the way they operate involved interact team with institutions and with culture. and so it's not what i want to a dance is to the idea that one can take a right in the abstract and imagine it can be placed on any particular context and will work the same time every time. let's take the example of jim crow south for instance. with one imagines to happen is that the right to racial equality and context that was articulated and in that right was imposed on the jim crow south in american society changed as a result of the articulation
you know, the idea is that it means something different under sharia law? the freedom of expression and chinese context of something other than what we know? you know, racial equality and the jim crow south wasn't something that was culturally grounded. how do you distinguish what you are saying from those long-standing? at least in the mind of human rights advocate. >> guest: that's a great question and i do want to distinguish what i think. i don't accept that kind of relativism at all....
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the application of law. but i would mention briefly, to strengthening the global response on cyber security. many cyber threats have been by the commissioner. there is weak. cyber investigations. the criminal misusers of computers. if i may remind, at the time when i was spokesman, one day i was in charge of the internet department. one day while opening my computer going on my website i see that they had been replaced by very little. it was in 2004. and then i said okay. we should be able to to at least know. only to congratulate him for his sense of humor, but we should be able. then we went. and we were able to see that this was coming from a tiny country, a tiny -- is blonde country in africa. i will not name it. a very small pantry. no agreement with this country. so a longstanding challenge that i hope to see one day. and i think there is unleash to really. [inaudible] , we can develop security in countries in cyberspace without sacrificing freedom. we have to put some money on that. at the time we hav
the application of law. but i would mention briefly, to strengthening the global response on cyber security. many cyber threats have been by the commissioner. there is weak. cyber investigations. the criminal misusers of computers. if i may remind, at the time when i was spokesman, one day i was in charge of the internet department. one day while opening my computer going on my website i see that they had been replaced by very little. it was in 2004. and then i said okay. we should be able to...
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so they quickly moved to change the laws, and the panthers responded by storming the hear anything sacramento. and be i'm looking at this on grandma's black and white tv seeing the legislature going, like, they crazy. they got guns and leather coats, they crazy. and the powerful white legislatures, the -- legislators, the white men, they're ducking under their seats for cover. chairman bobby reads the statement, you know, about the constitutional right to bear arms and that we have to defend ourselves because the police are not defending our communities, they're occupying our communities. and then a reporter says the ultra militant black panther party. he says, please, stop their cars, and they found more communist literature in the trunk. .. >>> liza mundy, you've written a very fascinating book. things that used to be put in the book shelves of stores as well as homes and women. we are talking about breadwinner's the social and economic shift that's happened and just in reading this book i saw something that says in the 1970's the single digits for women to run the household to be the bread
so they quickly moved to change the laws, and the panthers responded by storming the hear anything sacramento. and be i'm looking at this on grandma's black and white tv seeing the legislature going, like, they crazy. they got guns and leather coats, they crazy. and the powerful white legislatures, the -- legislators, the white men, they're ducking under their seats for cover. chairman bobby reads the statement, you know, about the constitutional right to bear arms and that we have to defend...
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employers, so one lesson command this is a lesson that came from dicky ed schultz, a scholar at yale law school is that a lot of the uptake of the rights happens not in court, you can't figure it out from what you see in the statute or the legal precedents but it happens and what is taken up by the human resources managers in a relatively low level, and so the way the civil rights always are interpreted through the human resources managers through the management consultants and employment is an important aspect of what it means to have a legal right, and sometimes it may turn out in ways that one wouldn't have anticipated and perhaps one wouldn't even have wanted, and so that is the lesson that i thought would be interesting to bring to bear on the questions of human rights in a high level of generality. what happens on the ground when they are actually implemented? what are the effects of articulating something and describing a particular social conflict or particular concern in terms of rights? >> i would agree with you that that debate rages on and we haven't worked on the human right
employers, so one lesson command this is a lesson that came from dicky ed schultz, a scholar at yale law school is that a lot of the uptake of the rights happens not in court, you can't figure it out from what you see in the statute or the legal precedents but it happens and what is taken up by the human resources managers in a relatively low level, and so the way the civil rights always are interpreted through the human resources managers through the management consultants and employment is an...
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you have to really respect the rule of law. it had become the rule. but there would not except people who come to power by force. in fact, recall one of the leaders, if you misbehave we issue you a red card. and it has had a real impact. recently they said we would handle it. right to have elections. we do not intend to stay. they are prevented from joining the other heads of states. this is an example that up the u.n. would follow and make it universal. we never went that route. at least it has happened and have an impact. also have made the statements on governments and human rights to respect the rule of law in a way has also empowers several societies. civil society can quote me and not go to jail. they make the stigmas directly by themselves, they get into trouble. and so with the robust civil society in africa empower encourage to speak up, to put pressure on the government to do the right thing and to insist on respecting the rule of law. we are seeing progress banner seeing some very good ngos. and so i think in the way i could be dismissed as
you have to really respect the rule of law. it had become the rule. but there would not except people who come to power by force. in fact, recall one of the leaders, if you misbehave we issue you a red card. and it has had a real impact. recently they said we would handle it. right to have elections. we do not intend to stay. they are prevented from joining the other heads of states. this is an example that up the u.n. would follow and make it universal. we never went that route. at least it...
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>> guest: okay, ignore the comments from in-laws if in-laws are making comments. tried to ignore that social stigma or try to explain to your in-laws, this is working for so don't call him a freeloader. he is supporting my career. a wife can tell her in-laws, don't stigmatize us. get a joint checking account. don't try to retain control over your earnings. have a joint checking account. he has his atf guarding you have your atf card. why would he be asking you for money if it's a joint checking account? men need to stay interesting in moving forward so the wife does not get the sense that they are stagnating. keep learning and keep moving and keep changing. don't sit around and stew and feel emasculated. move forward and stay dynamic. that's important to women. talk about this to your children as though it's a good thing. and remind your children that even if the wife is earning, that's an expression of love. she loves them, he loves them. talk about the children and talk to children as though this is okay. because it is okay. >> host: liza mundy thank you for thi
>> guest: okay, ignore the comments from in-laws if in-laws are making comments. tried to ignore that social stigma or try to explain to your in-laws, this is working for so don't call him a freeloader. he is supporting my career. a wife can tell her in-laws, don't stigmatize us. get a joint checking account. don't try to retain control over your earnings. have a joint checking account. he has his atf guarding you have your atf card. why would he be asking you for money if it's a joint...
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political security, human rights, humanitarian law and development. in our missions and countries in our planning headquarters at new york, peacebuilding has been the focus as never before. yet clearly the demands on the u.n. keep growing. too many people leave in afeard even at this moment. the piece is complex. this audience knows as well as anyone peacebuilding is a work in progress. we are learning by doing. is linear and requires a great flexibility in the tayler situation. the violence within months and within our society's and among the countries with isn't going to vanish anytime soon but we are committed to continuing it at every turn. we are determined to do everything we can to seize the moment when to help societies find a safer prosperous. ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for your attention and i am eager to hear your thoughts and comments to make this a peacebuilding process more sound and a robust. it can be done only with your strong support. the united nations and secretary general, myself, strongly committed to work for peace
political security, human rights, humanitarian law and development. in our missions and countries in our planning headquarters at new york, peacebuilding has been the focus as never before. yet clearly the demands on the u.n. keep growing. too many people leave in afeard even at this moment. the piece is complex. this audience knows as well as anyone peacebuilding is a work in progress. we are learning by doing. is linear and requires a great flexibility in the tayler situation. the violence...
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ongoing programming on the rule of law and military justice. we spend few million dollars per year to work with the congo military in a more wholesale way in helping with education and mentorship to ensure that the rule of law and resume right -- human rights are instilled throughout the military. that's programming that relatively modest, we see some benefit from. we're seeing the efforts not working at all. what is it that -- is the same. where we see the successful effort. they continue have a great amount of discipline or training. and often case don't have great education. there's a problem within the drc. it makes it harder to train them in a way that meets the standards we would like to see in any military. >> i would say that security sector reform in the army has been a failure for the most part it's also a failure because of elements of corruption, soldiers are not paid on a regular basis. they are not sustained and reequipped in the field. they continue have appropriate housing for themselves or fair families. many times when they ar
ongoing programming on the rule of law and military justice. we spend few million dollars per year to work with the congo military in a more wholesale way in helping with education and mentorship to ensure that the rule of law and resume right -- human rights are instilled throughout the military. that's programming that relatively modest, we see some benefit from. we're seeing the efforts not working at all. what is it that -- is the same. where we see the successful effort. they continue have...
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[laughter] we're pretty law-abiding people. okay? and, basically, if you have a mandate in place with a penalty that's real, which this does, by and large people comply. but many won't. i mean, the actions of the congressional budget office is this bill will cover 60% of the uninsured in america. there's three groups that are left out. unfortunately, undocumented immigrants are completely left out of this bill. that was a political decision made right at the start. there's nothing to be done about that. second is people who will be exempt from the mandate because while we want to bring people in, we don't want to penalize people who can't afford it. and the third is people won't comply, and there will be perhaps millions of people who don't comply. the point is, as long as you get enough people in the system who are healthy to keep costs down, then that's good. then that'll work. but we're going to have -- this is going to be a constantly evolving scenario. look, the biggest change we ever made to the medicaid program was the prescri
[laughter] we're pretty law-abiding people. okay? and, basically, if you have a mandate in place with a penalty that's real, which this does, by and large people comply. but many won't. i mean, the actions of the congressional budget office is this bill will cover 60% of the uninsured in america. there's three groups that are left out. unfortunately, undocumented immigrants are completely left out of this bill. that was a political decision made right at the start. there's nothing to be done...
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law. it does not infringe upon u.s. sovereignty. ratifying this treaty does allow us to reassert our leadership globally on disability rights. it will give us a seat at the table as parties to the convention grapple with how best to implement it. this treaty is important for americans with disabilities, including soldiers and veterans when they work abroad or study abroad or simply travel abroad. that's why i urge my colleagues to join in ratifying this treaty and to stand up for people with disabilities in ohio, throughout america, and around the world. i thank the president, and i note the example of a quorum. -- note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: i ask that the senate proceed to a period of machine morning business with senators permitted to peek for up to ten minutes each. fer if woiks u. mr. brown: i as
law. it does not infringe upon u.s. sovereignty. ratifying this treaty does allow us to reassert our leadership globally on disability rights. it will give us a seat at the table as parties to the convention grapple with how best to implement it. this treaty is important for americans with disabilities, including soldiers and veterans when they work abroad or study abroad or simply travel abroad. that's why i urge my colleagues to join in ratifying this treaty and to stand up for people with...
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first the history department where he got a phd and then i went to the law school. i wanted to do legal history and in those days you had to get those degrees, but you could get them at the same time. now you can. so i had to do one and then i had to do the other. >> host: did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> guest: i came to howard yes on purpose. i went to segregated schools in nashville growing up. perl high this segregated. as we were called in those days. i went to howard and that made sense. when i went to michigan i was one of the first to who was in the phd program because when i got the ahead of graduate study said he was surprised to see me and i found out what that meant. and then he told me there was one time keep your year but didn't graduate is what he told me. so i was there in the department. i was in there by my howard wanted me to work with a particular professor there in the institution. >> host: mary frances berry, who are your parents? >> guest: my parents were poor folk of my mother -- my father left us early. he was one of thos
first the history department where he got a phd and then i went to the law school. i wanted to do legal history and in those days you had to get those degrees, but you could get them at the same time. now you can. so i had to do one and then i had to do the other. >> host: did you come north to graduate school on purpose? >> guest: i came to howard yes on purpose. i went to segregated schools in nashville growing up. perl high this segregated. as we were called in those days. i went...
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those are the laws under which the intelligence community works ended a change in those laws and we have now passed three. that is a good sign and we have done it by unanimous consent, by working together, by using the mechanism of where two staffs, house and senate, get together and work from the beginning by having openness and sharing between the two houses. i find it very easy to talk to mike rogers, dave ruppersberger and saxby chambliss and that is really quite wonderful. >> but again it is the exception and here we are in a country with where millions of americans are suffering economically and your home state has been hit hard. we have wes bush's company trying to deal by -- aligned with the sequestration, with no movement on that issue. so why is it that the rest of the congress can't do what u.n. senator chambliss and congressman rogers have been able to do? >> for a while i thought well, it's the nature of what we do and that i became chairman of the energy and water subcommittee and lamar alexander from tennessee is the republican ranking member. we are able to work closely t
those are the laws under which the intelligence community works ended a change in those laws and we have now passed three. that is a good sign and we have done it by unanimous consent, by working together, by using the mechanism of where two staffs, house and senate, get together and work from the beginning by having openness and sharing between the two houses. i find it very easy to talk to mike rogers, dave ruppersberger and saxby chambliss and that is really quite wonderful. >> but...
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a law. >> hello? all right. okay, so into meetings, i just wanted to start with a quick comment on what i hope will come out of this, and this is a session that we hope will be useful for you and for us. one of the things i just wanted to note was starting my second term as ag, i'm excited about a lot of the challenges that face us, but i know that for my first two, three, even for years, as many of you are funny, there is a learning curve about what you can do in your office. .. >> that you can join in with your exper tease because you've done it, or you have questions about it because you haven't done it yet. i think we should look at this next sort of hour and a half or so as a little bit of this is your opportunity during this meeting to be in a chat room with your colleagues, some of who have tons of experience and some of who are new at it but still enthusiastic about it. so i just want to, as we talk through these topics particularly this light of the theme of this federal/state relationships, opportuniti
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and the third is respect for rule of law and human-rights. you cannot have long term development without stability and have stability vice versa of. but they have to be routed in the rule of law and respected by human-rights. we intended in the past including the u.s. dealing with these nations it is a stable country. then rego economically. but we forget the third. that is what the people are demanding. in the end they persist and work with each other to build a healthy society. >> do think it is a lack of the appearance that perhaps has made peace in the bill least? as a huge part as a secretary general. >> in the sense to take nine allies said everyone approaches the problem very soft a there was a tendency to focus signed changes and the stability and then they talk about rule of law and human-rights. their wrists so much in that region because of sensitivity because of the era spring has opened the door and the government is speaking much more broadly. >> host: when you criticize the united states to have a reflexive reaction with utiliz
and the third is respect for rule of law and human-rights. you cannot have long term development without stability and have stability vice versa of. but they have to be routed in the rule of law and respected by human-rights. we intended in the past including the u.s. dealing with these nations it is a stable country. then rego economically. but we forget the third. that is what the people are demanding. in the end they persist and work with each other to build a healthy society. >> do...
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>> guest: ignore the comments from the in-laws or explain this works for us. don't call him a freeloader. a wife could say do not stigmatize. dead of a joint checking account to not try to retain control. he is emasculated to ask you for many. why should he? been in need to stay interesting so the wife don't feel he is sitting at home stagnating. keep moving and it changing. do not stay at home but move for word. talk to this with your children it is a good thing and remind them. the wife is the way it is an expression of love. talk to them as if it is okay because it is ultimately. >> host: thank you so much for this valuable our comment liza mundy. "the richer sex" how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family" thank you so much. >> guest: thank you so much. >> at the cpac we have the author of the most recent book said tea party manifesto. once asked about the size of the book. >> of compact little book the shortest book ever wrote under 30,000 words. there is a very specific message for the tea party movement. i did not
>> guest: ignore the comments from the in-laws or explain this works for us. don't call him a freeloader. a wife could say do not stigmatize. dead of a joint checking account to not try to retain control. he is emasculated to ask you for many. why should he? been in need to stay interesting so the wife don't feel he is sitting at home stagnating. keep moving and it changing. do not stay at home but move for word. talk to this with your children it is a good thing and remind them. the wife...
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law student. to deal with a man who was supportive. he had hitched his wagon to her star. but she had hitched herself to someone who would be domestic and supportive. in an ideal world, couples would be willing to do that for one another. and they would make a decision about who, in that moment, had the better potential and make it possible for the other person to actualize themselves. we met we are talking with liza mundy, the author of the book "the richer sex", this transforming book about family. we celebrate this book, but it is a reality. we talk about the marble ceiling. she has set records and made strides herself. we have seen people like madeline albright. we have seen george w. bush and condoleezza rice. we have seen hillary rodham clinton. and obama was the first president to sign into law equal pay for women. this is the time that we really have to rethink how we are doing things. what was the catalyst for you to write this book? >> i had been interested in the fact that women are out
law student. to deal with a man who was supportive. he had hitched his wagon to her star. but she had hitched herself to someone who would be domestic and supportive. in an ideal world, couples would be willing to do that for one another. and they would make a decision about who, in that moment, had the better potential and make it possible for the other person to actualize themselves. we met we are talking with liza mundy, the author of the book "the richer sex", this transforming...
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>> guest: when you say that he played in the tax law, hope you don't say you manipulating the tax law because you have to pay what do. >> host: finding loopholes, other things. >> guest: for individuals, the discussion of loopholes is again an attempt to avoid the difficult question that would be involved in a tax reform plan that limits tax expenditures. most of the loopholes work eliminated in the 1986 tax law that eliminated tax sheltering the individuals. so there aren't many special interest loopholes available to individuals. if you are talking about loopholes for special interest provisions in the individual income tax, you are looking at home mortgage interest deductions, charitable deductions, deductions for state and local income and property taxes and the taxation of your employer provided health care. those are the items that will be involved in any individual tax reform that either puts a cap on this benefits for repeals or eliminates those benefits to finance solar rate. as much as i would like to appeal to say very many special interest loopholes out there that we could
>> guest: when you say that he played in the tax law, hope you don't say you manipulating the tax law because you have to pay what do. >> host: finding loopholes, other things. >> guest: for individuals, the discussion of loopholes is again an attempt to avoid the difficult question that would be involved in a tax reform plan that limits tax expenditures. most of the loopholes work eliminated in the 1986 tax law that eliminated tax sheltering the individuals. so there aren't...
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but both have to be rooted in the rule of law, and respect for human rights. if we have tended in the past as a community, including the u.s., when we are dealing with these nations, to focus on the first pillar, stability, and then we'll move on to the second pillar. the economic growth. but we forget the third pillar, which is often knost important, and this is what the people are demanding, and in the end, if they persist and work with each other and their leaders, they should be able to build a healthy society based on the three pillars that i'm referring to. >> host: do you think it's a lack of adherence by the international community in the pillars. one pillar, peace in the middle east, something that was a huge part of your time as secretary-general so difficult to achieve. >> guest: i think that is a part of it in the sense that they didn't want to take on france. allies, and they didn't want to criticize them. and so everyone went -- approached the problem very softly. if they raised it at all, there is would a tendency to really focus on security, ar
but both have to be rooted in the rule of law, and respect for human rights. if we have tended in the past as a community, including the u.s., when we are dealing with these nations, to focus on the first pillar, stability, and then we'll move on to the second pillar. the economic growth. but we forget the third pillar, which is often knost important, and this is what the people are demanding, and in the end, if they persist and work with each other and their leaders, they should be able to...
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and they have to really respect the rule of law. two years later it had become a row in the african union, that they will not accept people who come to power by force. in fact, i recall one of the leaders in every game you have rules. and soccer if you misbehave we show you a red card. we should show these guys read cards and not welcome them here. it has had a real impact. recently, there've been a couple of truth by taking me say we will hand over, will have elections can we do not intend to stay. and they are prevented from joining the other heads of state. this is an african example that i thought the u.n. would follow, and make it universal. we never went that route, but at least it has had an impact in africa. and i also made some statements on conference, on human rights, respectful rule of law. which in a way has -- [inaudible]. civil society can -- if they made some of the statements directed by themselves, they get into trouble. and so i felt with the robust civil society in africa, why should empower them and encourage th
and they have to really respect the rule of law. two years later it had become a row in the african union, that they will not accept people who come to power by force. in fact, i recall one of the leaders in every game you have rules. and soccer if you misbehave we show you a red card. we should show these guys read cards and not welcome them here. it has had a real impact. recently, there've been a couple of truth by taking me say we will hand over, will have elections can we do not intend to...
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we've got to have the same bankruptcy law for people as for corporations. i need you send me to washington dc. you need to send me to washington, d.c. we need to clear lake champlain a federally protected water reservoir to read 200,000 while they are drinking water from lake champlain and were under a big threat right now, gas, natural and another company in vermont are planning on putting a natural gas under lake champlain to build a natural gas pipeline to stir up all of the water of lake champlain and make it non-drinkable. remember one third draw their drinking water from lake champlain. all gas pipelines leak sometimes come so the gas and lead. this would be a disaster. we have got to get lake champlain declared a federally protected water reservoir. we've got to get federal funding for the public works project because right now under vermont, the new york and the canadian side treated this ridge is being dumped into lake champlain, and that was happening when bernie sanders was the mayor of burlington dumping it into lake champlain while simultaneous
we've got to have the same bankruptcy law for people as for corporations. i need you send me to washington dc. you need to send me to washington, d.c. we need to clear lake champlain a federally protected water reservoir to read 200,000 while they are drinking water from lake champlain and were under a big threat right now, gas, natural and another company in vermont are planning on putting a natural gas under lake champlain to build a natural gas pipeline to stir up all of the water of lake...
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the law doesn't stop discrimination entirely. abortion services are placed in a special category and states can ban abortion coverage altogether. but the law still contains many provisions that need to to and rationing by gender. all new health care plans would be required to charge men and women equally and to include coverage from -- for maternity care. in addition since august the first of this year, obamacare requires all health insurance to cover many preventive and screening services for women, including mammograms, pap smears, prenatal care, lactation support, domestic violence screening and contraception. i think that these coverage expansions alongside the defendant and of gender rating and a ban on excluding preexisting conditions of the most truly historic aspects of any law and they will make the greatest inroads against the american way of rationing. but we also have to ask why it took so long to get here and why it was so difficult. blatant gender discrimination survived until 2012, 100 years after progressive women
the law doesn't stop discrimination entirely. abortion services are placed in a special category and states can ban abortion coverage altogether. but the law still contains many provisions that need to to and rationing by gender. all new health care plans would be required to charge men and women equally and to include coverage from -- for maternity care. in addition since august the first of this year, obamacare requires all health insurance to cover many preventive and screening services for...
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his health care law is brazenly unconstitutional. his war with libya was unconstitutional. he got no congressional authority. so for a man who once gave lip service to the constitution, the president now has become a president who is prone to lawlessness and prone to unconstitutional behavior. our founders clearly intended that the president have the ability and the power to appoint advisors, but they also separated that power and gave power to the senate to advise and consent an his high-ranking officers. the president has done something that breaks with historical precedent of the it goes against the notion of checks and balances. in fact, the notion that underlies the whole idea of recess piments is mostly an -- recess appointments is mostly an historic relic. alexander hamilton explained in federalist 67 that the power was -- this is also done in a time when congress would go out of session for months at a time to return to their farms or return to their businesses. now congress meets nearly year-round. so in other words recess appointments should only happen rarely, in
his health care law is brazenly unconstitutional. his war with libya was unconstitutional. he got no congressional authority. so for a man who once gave lip service to the constitution, the president now has become a president who is prone to lawlessness and prone to unconstitutional behavior. our founders clearly intended that the president have the ability and the power to appoint advisors, but they also separated that power and gave power to the senate to advise and consent an his...
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and she's referring to laws pertaining to health insurance rate review. and what that told me was that there is nothing in the health care reform law to stop the increase in the cost of private health insurance or medicaid. there's nothing. so we defined health care reform, the problem, as a lack of insurance. is that the real problem? is the real problem affordability? are the subsidies a band-aid on exploding costs? also while i was writing the battle over health care, you'll remember the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. and these pictures like this were seen around the world of the oil coming out of the earth, and there was no way to stop it. day by day by day people watched this around the world. there was no way to cap it. finally, the engineers were able to cap it, and i couldn't help resist making a comparison with health care. there's nothing to stop it. it keeps coming and coming, and it's nothing to stop it. and there's nothing to stop it. just a word about medicare. one part of health care reform law that has brakes on it pertains to medicare.
and she's referring to laws pertaining to health insurance rate review. and what that told me was that there is nothing in the health care reform law to stop the increase in the cost of private health insurance or medicaid. there's nothing. so we defined health care reform, the problem, as a lack of insurance. is that the real problem? is the real problem affordability? are the subsidies a band-aid on exploding costs? also while i was writing the battle over health care, you'll remember the oil...
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she came from the dean's office at harvard law school. every member of the supreme court for the first time in our history had as the last thing on their resume a seat on the federal court of appeals, and that is astonishing. there are lots of ways to be a lawyer in this country. for instance, the war court there wasn't a single member of the court who had been a judge, a judge of anything. and justice brennan came on the court and had judge in new jersey. he'd never been a judge. three term governor of california he had run for vice president of the national republican ticket and he's a major political figure. there were some matters, former cabinet members, there were all kinds of people who had been deeply involved in the life of the country who and upon the supreme court. justice o'connor who've retired in 2005 was the only member of the court she served on who had been in elective office. she had been majority leader of the arizona state senate and there is nobody there that has ever had to face the public and, you know, for some of
she came from the dean's office at harvard law school. every member of the supreme court for the first time in our history had as the last thing on their resume a seat on the federal court of appeals, and that is astonishing. there are lots of ways to be a lawyer in this country. for instance, the war court there wasn't a single member of the court who had been a judge, a judge of anything. and justice brennan came on the court and had judge in new jersey. he'd never been a judge. three term...
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schools, the law school trade association. all law schools were supposed to behave that way for better or worse, you could debate the merits of it. but it was nonan -- not an elena kagan declaration, and be even fewer republicans voted for her than sotomayor the year earlier. so the paradigm has obviously changed, and the landscape of a confirmation, senate confirmation is going to be a battleground whether there's any objective reason for that or not. and i should point out that both of the vacancies that these two nominees were filling, a vacancy left by david souter and john paul stevens, these were not game changers. the ideological balance of those two vacancies was not going to change. but one of these days it will. who's going to leave the court and in what order? i mean, eventually, all nine of the current ones will leave, but i have no idea in what order or when. but at a certain point a justice who holds a central position on the court, letting that nomination be a game changer, that will happen. it happened in 1987
schools, the law school trade association. all law schools were supposed to behave that way for better or worse, you could debate the merits of it. but it was nonan -- not an elena kagan declaration, and be even fewer republicans voted for her than sotomayor the year earlier. so the paradigm has obviously changed, and the landscape of a confirmation, senate confirmation is going to be a battleground whether there's any objective reason for that or not. and i should point out that both of the...
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currently there is a bill to possibly revive the peace keeping operation law. the current law doesn't allow sds to use weapons, only for the case of self-defense or when danger is imminent. the new bill was revised this to include to allow the self-defense forces during a peacekeeping operation to defend civilians outside of the peacekeeping operations. this essentially would supplement the security of the host nations, and it's likely this bill might not make it to the current session and it's likely that it might get watered down. our study group and the participants of the report recommend a more forward leaning revision to the law. we recommend japan not only defend civilians in danger, but also protect and defend with force if necessary other international peacekeepers from other nationalities. we believe -- japan is currently on self-defense on peacekeeping operation missions working on disaster reconstruction specifically right now they're containing infectious diseases and this was extended to 2015. they are in south sudan, the youngest nation. they are
currently there is a bill to possibly revive the peace keeping operation law. the current law doesn't allow sds to use weapons, only for the case of self-defense or when danger is imminent. the new bill was revised this to include to allow the self-defense forces during a peacekeeping operation to defend civilians outside of the peacekeeping operations. this essentially would supplement the security of the host nations, and it's likely this bill might not make it to the current session and it's...
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, especially commercial law. and so i think the building of institutions, we can help enormously with that by helping them put in place bodies of law that will sustain a society. and you can do that without being ideologic about or telling them how. this is why you needed. and so i think body of law that represents the global of people, and then you started building of institutions that will help build the society, including a legislature, courts, free press. i don't think, absolute democratic or representative form of government, self-determined form of government can truly exist without somebody watching it and criticizing it and going after the government all the time. we have brought this to an extreme level of exquisite -- here in the united states. freedom of the press criticizes everything all the time. and we love. it's our system. wouldn't want it any other way. and so i think we can now bring that about but it requires a change in attitude and the part of government leaders to accept being criticized. w
, especially commercial law. and so i think the building of institutions, we can help enormously with that by helping them put in place bodies of law that will sustain a society. and you can do that without being ideologic about or telling them how. this is why you needed. and so i think body of law that represents the global of people, and then you started building of institutions that will help build the society, including a legislature, courts, free press. i don't think, absolute democratic...
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thing the insurance industry could do and has historically done is push for rules and regulations and laws that reduce risk. for example insurers are the reasons and we have fire safety codes and building codes -- you know is the reason for things like seat else. those are things that insurers have always been for because it's in their business interests to do so. so, if the insurance industry as a whole, which is one of the world's largest industries, i think the largest masses could take a more active role and really advocate and look at the big picture and advocate for strong climate action. you are protecting our own interest going forward and if you want to have a business in 40 years, because like florida is a case in mine at some point things become uninsurable and the flood insurance example is a great example of that and if things become uninsurable, then the market shrinks. so insurers have a very strong interest in pushing for strong climate action and moving toward sustainability. so i would certainly encourage anyone in that industry and you people know a lot more about it tha
thing the insurance industry could do and has historically done is push for rules and regulations and laws that reduce risk. for example insurers are the reasons and we have fire safety codes and building codes -- you know is the reason for things like seat else. those are things that insurers have always been for because it's in their business interests to do so. so, if the insurance industry as a whole, which is one of the world's largest industries, i think the largest masses could take a...
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and we need a federal law to protect them. [applause] our second challenge, well, i marriage. marriage puts us between the rock of limited hard line and celebrated success. the hard place of positive yet almost singular media attention specifically now that we have overturned don't ask "don't ask, don't tell," many now believe that our movement calls all of us and our movement across the country, that our movement is about one thing and one thing only, marriage. so let's talk about marriage. the richness of our family and how we create them, whether we choose to get married or not, when our families are ignored or denied the very institution of marriage is weakened, not strengthened. when our lives are denied the institution of marriage is weakened. and we won't stop fighting until the choice to get married is still all of the land for everyone who wants it. [applause] but, that isn't all we are fighting for. the lgbt movement is not a movement for marriage only. [applause] we are a movement for the full dignity of our lives, for a transformed society. the challenges when the
and we need a federal law to protect them. [applause] our second challenge, well, i marriage. marriage puts us between the rock of limited hard line and celebrated success. the hard place of positive yet almost singular media attention specifically now that we have overturned don't ask "don't ask, don't tell," many now believe that our movement calls all of us and our movement across the country, that our movement is about one thing and one thing only, marriage. so let's talk about...
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are the laws strong enough? what's the strong law? >> again, from our perspective, i think there has to be some viewed as a strong law this year may be viewed as a weak law five years from now. i think as communities enact laws, states enact laws, they have to be sensitive to the public at that time. if they go too far too fast they may get push back. they may find years down the road that they need to increase the punishments as has been done with drunk driving over the years to re-enforce the fact that the community does not tolerate this behavior any longer. >> mr. teater, you talked about liability concerns for the employer. other reliability concerns for the manufacturer of the device? have you seen that? >> i have not. it's the way the device is used, not the device itself. i don't think that's a driving factor in that regard. >> okay, even though there's warnings and guidance not to use it while driving? the gps in the box, instructions say don't use while driving. >> yeah, you know, i worked with the wireless industry closely
are the laws strong enough? what's the strong law? >> again, from our perspective, i think there has to be some viewed as a strong law this year may be viewed as a weak law five years from now. i think as communities enact laws, states enact laws, they have to be sensitive to the public at that time. if they go too far too fast they may get push back. they may find years down the road that they need to increase the punishments as has been done with drunk driving over the years to...
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to do the right thing and be respectful to the rule of law and human rights. we are seeing lots of progress and i have seen some very good ngos on the continent. so i think in that way, it could be dismissed as an old colonialist is trying to interfere. selected speak frankly to them and most of the time it would do go well with. >> host: did you ever have frank conversations with the secretary general? >> guest: yes, i met him on many occasions. we talked about health issues. we talked about the fight against hiv and aids and i remember trying to encourage him to get the people to use condoms zimbabwe was really hit by the epidemic and he was quite religious and trained to reassure him. i told him i think you should think about it. and he said when it comes to condoms, i won't budge. he wasn't the only one. there was another head of state who i tried to encourage to speak up. speak up on hiv and aids. it was a constant issue of silence on the issue. yet it was a situation where silence meant death. we should speak out and educate and encourage them to be spea
to do the right thing and be respectful to the rule of law and human rights. we are seeing lots of progress and i have seen some very good ngos on the continent. so i think in that way, it could be dismissed as an old colonialist is trying to interfere. selected speak frankly to them and most of the time it would do go well with. >> host: did you ever have frank conversations with the secretary general? >> guest: yes, i met him on many occasions. we talked about health issues. we...
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i would stress the rolph law. and if you look back to 1950 and the early 1950's this might have been the most destructive threat. in foreign policy eisenhower after the election in 1952, before taking office, he went with an army plane the tower and concluded there wasn't winnable but on the spot john foster dulles and a significant portion of the republican party eisenhower made peace and after he did so early in his term of one american serviceman was killed in action for the remaining eight years of eisenhower's presidency. fer eisenhower, the limited war was a contradiction of terms like the great military president ulysses grant, eisenhower heeded the war and firmly insisted that the united states would not become involved in conflict unless national survival was at stake, not national security but national survival. eisenhower by the way had no national security advisor. he was his own national security adviser. he had a secretary to the council but no national security adviser that came with president kenne
i would stress the rolph law. and if you look back to 1950 and the early 1950's this might have been the most destructive threat. in foreign policy eisenhower after the election in 1952, before taking office, he went with an army plane the tower and concluded there wasn't winnable but on the spot john foster dulles and a significant portion of the republican party eisenhower made peace and after he did so early in his term of one american serviceman was killed in action for the remaining eight...
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federal law and federal taxes that says for the purpose of federal law, marriage means a legal union between one man and one woman, husband and wife. that is the section of the law president obama recently declined to defend and the administration is enforcing it. the house has created the bipartisan legal advisory group. and the fans these laws since the administration abdicated its role in defending them and paul clement in that task. there are several cases all of which have petitions to decide. the first one and probably the front runner is a combination case, personnel management and the department of health and human services. it came out of massachusetts. two cases have been combined and they argue the equal protection clause violates section 3 of the defense of marriage act because the defense of marriage act violates the equal protection clause because there is no rational basis for this or it doesn't pass strict scrutiny. the idea of which level of scrutiny must pass has been questioned so we're happy to argue both. elena kagan was involved at the district court level durin
federal law and federal taxes that says for the purpose of federal law, marriage means a legal union between one man and one woman, husband and wife. that is the section of the law president obama recently declined to defend and the administration is enforcing it. the house has created the bipartisan legal advisory group. and the fans these laws since the administration abdicated its role in defending them and paul clement in that task. there are several cases all of which have petitions to...
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and one standard of law was critical. so, i said, gee, you know, that's a really important principle and i believed in it, too. and then we got the bush years. the can'tability principles pretty much worked. i won't say they were perfect. hardly government doesn't operate in a perfect world, and that in itself is rarely perfect. but then we got to the push years and things changed, and so i and my coe author cynthia cooper wrote a book about impeachment. i wasn't an expert on it. that's a niche area of expertise in this country that ten of us have had the experience of dealing with the terms of the constitution and the impeachment proceeding that worked, in the nixon impeachment proceeding. but we saw, and we wrote a book, and we saw, however, that there was no accountability through the impeachment process and we knew the framer0s of the constitution and it was clear in the debates that once the president leaves office, he some day maybe a she, can be prosecuted. there was nothing in the framers debates that said, oh, yo
and one standard of law was critical. so, i said, gee, you know, that's a really important principle and i believed in it, too. and then we got the bush years. the can'tability principles pretty much worked. i won't say they were perfect. hardly government doesn't operate in a perfect world, and that in itself is rarely perfect. but then we got to the push years and things changed, and so i and my coe author cynthia cooper wrote a book about impeachment. i wasn't an expert on it. that's a niche...
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the state of louisiana defending its law was not aware of it. a whole coalition of other states they came in to the case on behalf of of louisiana, they were unaware of it. nobody told the justices, and it came to light only because a military lawyer blogger who is very familiar with the death penalty in the military put it out on his blog a few days after the opinion came down. well, this came to my attention and i had occasion to write about it on page one of "the new york times," and this created quite a ruckus because the attorney general in louisiana who had not bothered to return my phone call on the day before once they saw the story, they found a motion with the court to get court to reopen the case. and it was a whole bunch of motion practice back and forth for the remainder of the summer of 2008, and ultimately the court stood by its decision, decided not to reopen the case, just address this problem in the footnote. but if you think it's a great example of, you know, we have this extremely powerful group of nine people, but at the end
the state of louisiana defending its law was not aware of it. a whole coalition of other states they came in to the case on behalf of of louisiana, they were unaware of it. nobody told the justices, and it came to light only because a military lawyer blogger who is very familiar with the death penalty in the military put it out on his blog a few days after the opinion came down. well, this came to my attention and i had occasion to write about it on page one of "the new york times,"...
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the governor of ohio declared martial law. the and to the picture after the civil rights war where the politicians were going to be successful statewide. the southern sympathies and people with number sympathies. the grand army of the public which was the union army took many of its union officers from ally of. the established the republican party. so the grand army of the republic became in many ways the republican party organization. so you had strong republican organizations. you as a politician wanted to run statewide thinking i have a tribal appeal to both groups and of course by appealing to both groups, you are also able to appear to the whole country in a way that people that were presidential candidates for many decades after the civil war came from ohio so we have a whole run of people that for presidents that were ohioans because they were able to compete in a state that sympathizers on both sides of what had become the great divide in american politics between the north and the south. ulysses grant probably is the
the governor of ohio declared martial law. the and to the picture after the civil rights war where the politicians were going to be successful statewide. the southern sympathies and people with number sympathies. the grand army of the public which was the union army took many of its union officers from ally of. the established the republican party. so the grand army of the republic became in many ways the republican party organization. so you had strong republican organizations. you as a...
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. >> changing corporate laws. making sure there is fairness. if the american people think we're putting fairness to the system i guaranty they're behind us 1,000 percent. >> they are. it is amazing look at public opinion polls they said we have to include revenues in deficit reduction. we can do it without raising taxes on middle income americans. >> we can cut spending too, sir. >> we can cut spending too. the balance in this budget given to us yesterday is 50% additional cuts and 50% additional revenues. frankly i don't think the administration in its roll out yesterday yesterday focused on the fact this would avoid sequestration. this budget, if we adopted it avoids sequestration. it does it finally talking about additional revenues. they talked about it in the administration. now they put in their budget. we had republican colleagues today talking about avoiding sequestration. when i pointed out this budget that was given to us avoids sequestration, because there is additional revenues in it, they were saying, well they hope they can vote o
. >> changing corporate laws. making sure there is fairness. if the american people think we're putting fairness to the system i guaranty they're behind us 1,000 percent. >> they are. it is amazing look at public opinion polls they said we have to include revenues in deficit reduction. we can do it without raising taxes on middle income americans. >> we can cut spending too, sir. >> we can cut spending too. the balance in this budget given to us yesterday is 50%...
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wade and the conservatives are nonliberal law. justice douglas wrote that opinion which is about a page and a half on the 14th and 15th amendment. i was not arguing the number argument. i do care about federal reserve and those kinds of things but at the things but at the end of the day i was making an argument about the meaning and why did madison -- to the most important people and today the ratification convention. we decided against the recollection for impracticality or really it's the issue of the communication issue. >> job they did decide against it. we don't deny that. they also decided against the governor's pic and legislators pick but with a decided was not what they put in the constitution constitution which was an unqualified grant of power to the states not subject to congressional veto like other election laws are. it's a unique state power and it's a plenary power and read macpherson in 1893 decision which is a seminole case and you will find all kinds of language that supports the idea that the states can do anyt
wade and the conservatives are nonliberal law. justice douglas wrote that opinion which is about a page and a half on the 14th and 15th amendment. i was not arguing the number argument. i do care about federal reserve and those kinds of things but at the things but at the end of the day i was making an argument about the meaning and why did madison -- to the most important people and today the ratification convention. we decided against the recollection for impracticality or really it's the...
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law. and there was a seminal journal article by thomas curt thers in current affairs that warned countries that don't live under the rule of law, elites can use their superior financial power to co-opt political institutions. and that the critical requirement to live under the rule of law is that political and financial elites cease placing themselves above the law and are subjected on equal terms the to everyone else. and you go back to the founders and as much disagreement as they had, what you continuously find is this emphasis, not ancillary or secondary, but really central that the american founding in order to be legitimate and just had to venerate the rule of law. and this was true despite the fact that founders almost across the board believed in the the inevitability and even desirability and virtue of vast levels of inequality in all sorts of realms, and yet they continuously emphasized the only way that equality would be equal and just would be if everyone were equal before the
law. and there was a seminal journal article by thomas curt thers in current affairs that warned countries that don't live under the rule of law, elites can use their superior financial power to co-opt political institutions. and that the critical requirement to live under the rule of law is that political and financial elites cease placing themselves above the law and are subjected on equal terms the to everyone else. and you go back to the founders and as much disagreement as they had, what...